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Taken up. Four #watercolor and #mixedmedia #sketches of General Cemetery #Sheffield where the speed limit is 5mph.
Afloat
As a boat
Unbidden
Holed ‘neath
Waterline
Or beached
Sandbanked
Dogger-ed
Prone
But still:
Plug or cork
Bale buckets
Righted
Buoyed on
Upswelling
Downswelling
To skerries
Aloof yet
In danger
Familiar
Stranger
Until lodged
Platformed
Wave-cut
Shelved
Morn @IMcMillan
The distance has gone. Oil and poster paints with pencil on thick cartridge (salvaged, with technical drawings on reverse). #mixedmedia #landscape
Green
In the one tree
For miles
Finches meet
Flitting branch to branch
Savouring
The wind-battered leaves
Leaning to the east
Flapping with relish
Like it’s a forest
The old place
Before the Norse
Settlers
How they must
Plan their journey
Hopping
Far oases
Morn @IMcMillan
Evening skies. Also, I’ve run out of white and grey pastel. #Orkney : almost too much light. Oil pastel on #sketchbook cartridge paper
Susurrus
O whispering stream
Bouffant sheen
Bending light
Caressing stones
Shimmying
Across the bed
Like snakes on sand
Like grating cheese
O summer rain
Your cool embrace
Pattering path
Crawling down
My upturned face
The stream meets rain
Merging without fuss
Morn @IMcMillan
Big talk
Coffee?
Stoke up
Alert
Top line
Slide show
Loss/gain
Step to
Keep up
New car?
Upgrade
Top speed
Not bad
Sales chart
Push them
Hard sell
Talk up
‘Scuse me
Phone call
Yah yah
All done
Shift up
Offload
Can’t stop
Work calls
Chin up
Ciao ciao
Morn @IMcMillan
Seasoning
We scrabbed like old foragers
With arms weighed down
Wheelbarrows bulked
Our secret signs, overtures
We claim each hulk with a look
An improvised grappling hook
We thank the elm parasite
The rotting ash core termite
We read the Magna Carta
Every night
M @IMcMillan
A pair of #sketches of Sheffield’s hinterland. We are going to spend some time with that chimney. Oil and charcoal on paper.
Recalcitrant
These handy
Peeping eyes
Of mine
Blinking stalks
Or stick
Mince pies
It’s nine
Or eight
Or fifteen limbs
To scuttle
Size the sea-scene up
A secret
Word to the wise
A rock
Or shell
A fiendish guise
You cannot ever
Even prize
Morn @IMcMillan